Essays on Contract

Zusatztext `these essays are of the highest quality and will be compulsory reading for any serious student of the law of obligations.'The Irish Jurist Klappentext Originally published in 1988 and now available in a revised paperback edition! this collection of essays by one of the leading contract theorists of the common law world concerns the theory and foundations of contractual liability. This paperback edition includes a new essay! "Freedom of Contract and the New Right!" which charts the latest shift in the development of contract law back in the direction of Freedom of Contract. This collection will especially appeal to students and scholars of contract law and theory and the law of obligation. Zusammenfassung This revised edition has been updated and expanded to include a new essay on freedom of contract and the New Right, which charts the latest shift in the development of contract law. The author argues that this shift can be traced to the New Right's advocacy of political and economic freedom.

Product details

• Authors: P. S. Atiyah, P. S. (Former Professor of English Law Atiyah, P.S. Atiyah, Patrick S. Atiyah
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.1990
• EAN: 9780198254447
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825444-7
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law